Reading Together

From Theory to Transformation: Offered monthly and facilitated by Transformance: The AEDP Journal editor, Carrie Ruggieri, each session invites a deep, shared reading aloud of AEDP session transcripts published in the Journal.

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Upcoming Readings

Transformation of Transgenerational Trauma: A Cross -Cultural Context: by H. Jacquie Ye-Perman
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
Date: April 22, 2026 (Originally Scheduled for April 8)
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Journal: Transformance Journal Vol. 15(1):
Reading Transformation of Transgenerational Trauma: A Cross-Cultural Context

about the reading::

Our next ReadingTogether session engages a topic that is newly emerging within the AEDP literature.  Jacquie Ye-Perman brings her considerable research on transgenerational trauma to her clinical work and has identified the AEDP interventions which are ideal for work with non-western European clients.  She has also identified treatment goals specific to transgenerational trauma.   

One theme touched upon in both the text and transcript is the therapist own lived or felt proximity to the political/historical/social conditions underlying the client’s  trauma. When held with Jacquie’s care (with evident care to not create conditions for over identification) this kind of experienced-near knowing can deepen a much needed sense of feeling seen – particularly in cases of transgenerational trauma where there has often been longstanding injury around invisibility or projection, both within the familial home and within the broader cultural contexts or cultures far from home. 

Jacquie identifies another focus of treatment specific to transgenerational trauma work – the need to help clients unblend from their parents’ trauma, enabling a more complete differentiation and consolidation of a more distinct self. As we read the transcript we will experience client’s flowering into a distinct adult. 

As we read the transcript (and some of the text) we will experience the gentle enveloping warmth of Jacquie’s natural therapeutic presence. We will also witness a unique bond that emerges, in part, from a shared historical, political, and cultural context – one that Jaquie skillfully deepens and maximizes through her AEDP stance.  

It is remarkable to witness, and vicariously experience, the impact of this therapeutic bond:, Jacquie’s exquisite attunement, her seamless integration of AEDP attachment-focused interventions, and, as a result,  the client’s growing agency within this deeply moving therapeutic relationship.

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Therapeutic Delight or Cultural Discomfort? Enhancing Receptive Affective Capacity Across Cultures: By Tamar (Tammy) Avichail
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Journal: Transformance Journal Vol. 15(2):
Reading: Therapeutic Delight or Cultural Discomfort? Enhancing Receptive Affective Capacity Across Cultures

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Culturally Attuned AEDP for Attachment Integration: Four Internal Working Models of a Taiwanese Adopted Migrant Boy: By Yi-Fang (Evon) Chiu
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
Date: June 10, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Journal: Transformance Journal Vol. 15(2):
Reading: Culturally Attuned AEDP for Attachment Integration: Four Internal Working Models of a Taiwanese Adopted Migrant Boy

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